Bad Bunny, the most nominated. Photo: IG
Bad Bunny tops the list of finalists for the 2022 Billboard Latin Music Awards, a gala that will be held in Miami and will be broadcast live on Telemundo on September 29th.
The list is led by the popular Puerto Rican, who has 23 nominations, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, for his album a summer without youas shown in the list of finalists released by the organizers.
thanks to your album A summer without you the Puerto Rican reggaeton player is a finalist in the Top Latin Album of the Year and Latin Rhythm Album of the Year categories, while his hits I behave well Tití asked me, Pretty eyes Y Partybased on the aforementioned album, it garnered eight nominations, including Hot Latin Song of the Year and Streaming Song of the Year.
This year the awards correspond to 58 different categories covering, among others, the main musical genres in Latin Pop, Tropical, Latin Rhythm and Regional Mexican.
Carol G, second
The gala, held at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, is “the only one to honor Latin music’s most popular albums, songs and artists,” according to a Billboard statement.
Karol G, Becky G, Farruko, Rauw Alejandro, Aventura and Eslabón Armado follow Bad Bunny in number of nominations.
Colombian singer Carol G is 15 times finalist this 2022, in categories that include Artist of the Year, Top Latin Album of the Year and Latin Rhythm Album of the Year for his hit album KG0516.
Additionally, it has seven mentions thanks to its theme mommy together with the American Becky G, a current reference in Latin music. The collaboration between the two aspires to the Hot Latin Song of the Year, Latin Airplay Song of the Year and Latin Pop Song awards, as well as Streaming Song of the Year and Latin Pop Song of the Year, among others.
The Colombian will also compete in the categories Hot Latin Songs Artist of the Year, Fémina and Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year with Becky G, who in turn has 7 of her 11 nominations thanks to mommy.
Farruko and Rauw Alejandro
With 11 nominations he is the Puerto Rican reggaeton player Farrucowho will compete against Bad Bunny for many of the main awards, including Artist of the Year and Hot Latin Song of the Year for kerneland best Latin album of the year for the 167.
He is also Puerto Rican Raww Alexander Noted as a finalist for 10 Billboard Awards including Artist of the Year, Hot Latin Songs, Male, Top Latin Albums of the Year and Latin Rhythm Album of the Year for his work Vice versa.
More candidates
In the tropical categories, the Dominican-American bachata musical group stands out with seven nominations. Adventurewhich competes for Tropical Artist of the Year and Duo or Group and received 4 mentions for I’m backhis successful collaboration in the bachata genre with Bad Bunny.
Mexican American musical group Armored connection leads the category Mexican Regional Music with 6 mentions, including Mexican Regional Artist of the Year, Duo or Group, Hot Latin Songs of the Year or Best Latin Albums of the Year, thanks to his albums, Nostalgia Y Your Deadly Poison, Vol. Two.
Other artists with more nominations they are Chencho Corleone, J Balvin and Marc Anthony (5); Sebastian Yatra (4); Enrique Iglesias, Ivan Cornejo, Kali Uchis and Rosalía (3), and with two nominations Bomba Estéreo, Carin León, Carlos Vives, Jhayco, Junior H, Los Bukis, Maluma, Maná, Marco Borrero, Romeo Santos, Skrillex, Tainy and Yaritza and its essence.
There are no Argentine artists on the list.
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Source: Clarin
